EP0625955A1 - Procede et dispositif pour enrouler un article du type cable sur une bobine avec des rebords. - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour enrouler un article du type cable sur une bobine avec des rebords.

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EP0625955A1
EP0625955A1 EP93917396A EP93917396A EP0625955A1 EP 0625955 A1 EP0625955 A1 EP 0625955A1 EP 93917396 A EP93917396 A EP 93917396A EP 93917396 A EP93917396 A EP 93917396A EP 0625955 A1 EP0625955 A1 EP 0625955A1
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cable
reel
guide
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angle
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Gustaf Linderoth
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Rosendahl Nextrom Oy
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Nokia Maillefer Oy
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H54/00—Winding, coiling, or depositing filamentary material
    • B65H54/02—Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers
    • B65H54/28—Traversing devices; Package-shaping arrangements
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H54/00—Winding, coiling, or depositing filamentary material
    • B65H54/02—Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers
    • B65H54/28—Traversing devices; Package-shaping arrangements
    • B65H54/2848—Arrangements for aligned winding
    • B65H54/2854—Detection or control of aligned winding or reversal
    • B65H54/2857—Reversal control
    • B65H54/286—Reversal control by detection that the material has reached the flange or the reel end

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a method of winding a wire-like product, such as a cable, on a flanged reel in a winding machine, wherein
  • the reel is supported rotatably about its axis by means of a support structure;
  • the support structure and the guide are dis ⁇ placed with respect to each other with a pitch cor ⁇ responding to the cable thickness per one cable turn, - the cable being wound on the reel at an angle of lag with respect to adjacent cable turns, which angle is changed at each reel flange through a posi ⁇ tion parallel with the flange into an opposite angle of lag when a cable turn comes into contact with the reel flange.
  • wire-like product refers to all kinds of long narrow continuous objects which can be wound on a reel, such as cables, conductors, and hoses, mainly products used in the manufacture of electric cables and data transmission conductors.
  • cables such as cables, conductors, and hoses, mainly products used in the manufacture of electric cables and data transmission conductors.
  • the invention will be described below with reference to a cable.
  • a guide is used so that the cable will be positioned between the flanges of the reel in superimposed laye ⁇ rs each comprising a number of adjacent cable turns.
  • the machines are also provided with a distributing machinery, by means of which the axial displacement between the guide and the reel for each revolution of the reel, i.e. the pitch at which the cable is wound on the reel, can be adjusted so that it always corresponds to the thick- ness of the cable to be wound.
  • Swedish Patent Application 9000662 discloses a winding machine in which the angle of lag is reduced to zero, that is, the cable is wound at right angles to the axis of the reel and in parallel with the reel flange by means of a simple rotatable pair of rollers.
  • German Auslegeschrift 1 902 722 discloses a winding machine in which the reduction of the angle of lag to zero at the reel flange and its restoration to its proper value after the reversion of the direction of the displacing movement of the guide is performed by accelerating/retarding the displacing
  • a drawback of the above-mentioned winding methods and machines is that it is still difficult to 5 wind the cable sufficiently densely at the critical reel flanges, where the direction of the guide is reversed and the cable starts a new layer upon the previous ones.
  • the object of the present invention is to
  • the method according to the invention is based on the idea that the angle of lag of the cable is
  • the invention also relates to a device in a winding machine, and this device is characterized in
  • the winding machine comprises detecting means for each reel flange for detecting the reel flange and changing the angle of lag into said parallel po ⁇ sition before the reversing means detect the reel flange and reverse the direction of displacement of
  • Swedish Patent Application 9002141 (NOKIA- MAILLEFER) relates to a winding machine provided with sensing means for continuously sensing the cable thickness and for controlling the reversion of the displacement of the guide in the axial direction of the reel in response to the sensing movements of the sensing means. In this way the location of the turn ⁇ ing points of the guide at the reel flanges can be adapted to possible variations in the cable thick- ness.
  • the detecting means for re ⁇ setting the angle of lag are arranged to be displaced in the axial direction of the reel in synchronization with the movements of the sensing means due to variations in the cable thickness.
  • the turning points of the guide need not be calculated and no manual adjustments are needed with different reel dimensions and reel widths, but the device automatically determines the appropriate turn ⁇ ing points and the appropriate angle resetting points with mechanical means both when winding cables with different diameters and cables with a varying dia- meter.
  • FIGS 1A to 1C illustrate schematically the basic idea of the present invention
  • Figure 2 is a perspective view of an arrange ⁇ ment according to the invention when applied to a prior art cable winding machine according to Swedish Patent Application 9002141;
  • Figure 3 is an enlarged vertical view of the guide of the winding machine;
  • Figure 5 illustrates the cooperation between 5 the guide, the distributing machinery, the support structure and the reel
  • Figure 6 illustrates the variation of the signal voltage according to the angle of lag in six different angle positions; and 10
  • Figure 7 illustrates diagrammatically the signal voltage of the distributing machinery as a function of the displacing time of the guide.
  • Figures 1A to 1C which illustrate the idea of the invention, show a reel 1 on which a cable 2 is 15 wound between reel flanges la by means of a guide 3.
  • the reel and the guide are displaced with respect to each other in the axial direction of the reel so that the cable will be wound turn by turn on the previous ⁇ ly wound cable layers.
  • the direction of movement of the guide is reversed.
  • the guide is provided with two detectors 4 and
  • the detector 5 detects the presence of the reel flange already before the first detector 4.
  • the purpose of the detector 4 is to give a signal for reversing the direction of the displacing movement of the guide.
  • the purpose of the detector 5 is to give a signal for setting the angle of lag of the cable to zero.
  • the cable is wound on the reel at a certain angle of lag A so that the guide has a cor ⁇ responding lag with respect to a point B on the reel 35 at which the cable runs beside a previously wound cable turn.
  • the second detector 5 has detect ⁇ ed the reel flange and caused the displacing movement of the guide to be accelerated so that the lag of the guide is eliminated and the guide reaches such a position with respect to the entering point B of the cable on the reel that the angle of lag of the cable is zero. In this position the cable is wound at right angles to the reel axis and in parallel with the reel flange.
  • the guide has, of course, a similar pair of detectors for the other reel flange.
  • the winding machine shown in Figure 2 mainly comprises a support structure 6 for a reel 1 and a guide 3 for a cable 2 to be wound on the reel.
  • the guide is supported by a stationary bracing 7, whereas the support structure is wheeled and displaceable along rails 8 by means of a distributing machinery shown only schematically with the reference numeral 9.
  • the reel is axially displaceable by means of the distributing machinery to and fro in front of the guide so that the cable will be wound on the reel turn by turn in superimposed layers between the ends la of the reel.
  • This type of winding machine is pre ⁇ viously known and therefore will not be described more closely below (e.g. SE Patent Application 9000662).
  • the guide 3 shown in Figures 3 and 4 comprises a frame 10 in which a V-shaped guide roll 11 is mounted rotatably on a shaft transverse to the longitudinal direction of the cable.
  • the guide further comprises two measuring rolls 12 which are fastened on the opposite sides of the cable by means of supports 13 arranged slideably on shafts 14 paral ⁇ lel with the shaft of the guide roll.
  • Both supports support a signal generator 15 formed by an electric slide rheostat having one element 15b attached to the frame and another element 15a attached to the support.
  • Both supports further support two detectors 4 and 5 which correspond to the detectors shown in Figures 1A to 1C, that is, the detector 4 for revers- ing the direction of the displacing movement of the guide, and the detector 5 for setting the angle of lag of the cable to zero.
  • the signal generators 15 are connected to the distributing machinery 9 by means of cables 16, Figure 5.
  • the signal generators respond continuously to variations in the thickness of the cable via the measuring rolls and sends electric signals through the cables 16 to the distributing machinery in order to cause a corresponding increase or decrease in the axial displacement of the reel per one cable turn by means of calculators and processors.
  • the detectors 5, e.g. photocells, are connected by means of cables 20 to the distributing machinery 9.
  • the detector detects the reel flange la, it sends a signal through the cable to the distributing machinery to increase the axial displacement of the reel per one cable turn (when the winding of the cable takes place towards the reel flange) or to de ⁇ crease the displacement of the reel (when the winding of the cable takes place in a direction away from the reel flange) in an amount such that the angle of lag of the cable is set to zero or reaches a desired value, respectively.
  • the angle of lag can be determined by means of the signal generators 15 in the following way:
  • the signal generators 15 generate a signal voltage U x and U 2 , respectively, Figure 5.
  • the difference U x - U 2 is pro ⁇ portional to the angle of lag of the cable.
  • the distributing machinery 9 gives a set value U B for the signal voltage U x - U 2 during the winding of the cable, as shown in Figure 7, which set value cor ⁇ responds to the desired angle of lag of the cable.
  • the distributing machinery also gives a set value U ⁇ for the signal voltage U 1 - U 2 when the cable is wound at right angles to the axis of the reel.
  • the sensing of the cable thick ⁇ ness may be carried out by means of the measuring rolls 12, which are connected to the signal generators 15.
  • the sum of the signal voltages U l and U 2 that is, the actual value U for the signal volt ⁇ ages U x + U 2 , is proportional to the cable thickness.
  • the detectors 4 such as photocells, are con- nected by means of cables 21 to the distributing machinery 9. When the detector detects the reel flange, it sends an electric signal to the distributing machinery to cause it to reverse the direction of the displacing movement of the reel.
  • the drawings and the description related to them are only intended to illustrate the idea of the invention. In its details, the invention may vary within the scope of the claims.
  • the method and the device according to the invention may also be applied in winding machines having no means for sensing variations in the cable thickness, and in machines where the direction of the displacing movement of the guide or the reel is reversed by devices different from those described herein.
  • the reel may be stationary and the guide displaceable.
  • the guide means for setting the angle of lag of the cable to zero and resetting it to a predetermined angle may also be mechanical means supported by the guide, e.g. of the type shown in Swedish Patent Application 9000662.
  • the signal generators 15 may also be analogous ultrasonic measuring means or analogous optical IR measuring means.

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  • Storing, Repeated Paying-Out, And Re-Storing Of Elongated Articles (AREA)
  • Winding Filamentary Materials (AREA)
  • Coil Winding Methods And Apparatuses (AREA)
  • Storage Of Web-Like Or Filamentary Materials (AREA)

Abstract

Un procédé pour enrouler un câble (2) sur une bobine en rotation (1) au moyen d'un guide (3) avec un angle de décalage (A) qui est changé aux deux rebords de la bobine (1a) en passant par une orientation parallèle aux rebords, pour prendre la valeur opposée d'angle de décalage lorsqu'une spire du câble vient en contact avec un rebord de la bobine. Pour enrouler le câble en spires plus sérrées aux rebords de la bobine, l'angle de décalage (A) est changé pour que le câble prenne une orientation parallèle au rebord de la bobine avant que la spire du câble ne vienne en contact avec le rebord de la bobine. Un dispositif pour mettre en oeuvre le procédé dans une machine pour enrouler des câbles comprend un moyen de détection (5) porté par le guide pour détecter chaque rebord de bobine (1a), afin de changer l'angle de décalage du câble et donner à celui-ci sont orientation parallèle avant qu'un moyen d'inversion (4) ne détecte le rebord de la bobine et n'inverse la direction de déplacement du guide (3) par rapport à la bobine.
EP93917396A 1992-02-12 1993-02-10 Procede et dispositif pour enrouler un article du type cable sur une bobine avec des rebords Expired - Lifetime EP0625955B1 (fr)

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SE9200412 1992-02-12
SE9200412A SE469559B (sv) 1992-02-12 1992-02-12 Foerfarande och anordning foer lindning av ett straengformat gods paa en flaensfoersedd spole
PCT/FI1993/000034 WO1993015991A1 (fr) 1992-02-12 1993-02-10 Procede et dispositif pour enrouler un article du type cable sur une bobine avec des rebords

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EP (1) EP0625955B1 (fr)
JP (1) JPH07503690A (fr)
KR (1) KR950700209A (fr)
AT (1) ATE141895T1 (fr)
CA (1) CA2128703A1 (fr)
DE (1) DE69304312T2 (fr)
SE (1) SE469559B (fr)
WO (1) WO1993015991A1 (fr)

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US5551644A (en) 1996-09-03
WO1993015991A1 (fr) 1993-08-19
CA2128703A1 (fr) 1993-08-19
JPH07503690A (ja) 1995-04-20
ATE141895T1 (de) 1996-09-15
KR950700209A (ko) 1995-01-16
SE9200412L (sv) 1993-07-26
SE9200412D0 (sv) 1992-02-12
SE469559B (sv) 1993-07-26

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